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Untangling the Web of Violence: The Network Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions

Date Published

February 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Program/Project Evaluation

Criminal Investigative Failures: A Network Analysis

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

December 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Image-based sexual abuse profiles: Integrating mental health, adversities, and victimization to explore social contexts in a diverse group of young adults

Journal

Computers in Human Behavior

Date Published

June 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Pathways From Childhood Maltreatment to Adult Drug Use: The Distinct Roles of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

Journal

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Date Published

October 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Two-Level, Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Single Factor SAVRY Individual/Clinical Risk Measure Across Mississippi Juvenile Court Jurisdictions

Journal

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Characteristics Linked to Different Reasons Why Youth Decide Not to Disclose

Journal

Prevention Science

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Understanding the Needs of Victims of Criminal Justice System-Related Harms

Journal

Crime & Delinquency

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Examining the Impact of Permitless Firearm Legislation and COVID-19 on Crime and Arrests in Three Urban Cities

Journal

Journal of Urban Health

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation, Legislation/Policy Analysis

Callous-Unemotionality in a Sample of Justice-Involved Adolescents: Distinct Associations With Attachment Avoidance and Attachment Anxiety

Journal

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Immigrant Status and Attitudes toward Violence: Associations across Race/ethnicity and Neighborhood Contexts

Journal

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

October 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Patterns of informal mentorship in policing: A case study

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Situational and Victim Correlates of Increased Case Fatality Rates in Los Angeles Shootings, 2005–2021

Journal

Journal of Urban Health

Date Published

March 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Differential Associations Between Legal System Contact and Internalizing Symptoms Among Latino, Black, and White Youth

Journal

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Date Published

August 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Equity in law enforcement actions following a school threat assessment

Journal

Law and Human Behavior

Date Published

August 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Augmenting, Analyzing, and Archiving Criminal Trajectories in Four Birth Cohorts from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, 1995-2023

Date Published

September 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Examining Equity in State Victim Compensation Programs: A Multilevel Analysis

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Culture and Officer Behavior: Application of a Multilevel Framework

Journal

Criminology

Date Published

September 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Youth Protective Factors Study: A Strategy for Promoting Success Based on Risks, Strengths, and Development

Date Published

March 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Research Brief: Pediatrics and Preventive Care – Establishing a Foundation of Trust

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Research Brief: Clinics and Emergency Services

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Short-Term Health and Safety Outcomes Associated With Digital Hotline Use at Interpersonal Violence-Focused Agencies

Journal

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing

Date Published

October 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact

Journal

Social Problems

Date Published

October 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Substance use treatment completion does not mediate the relationship between family treatment court participation and reunification: Results from five courts in the Southwestern U.S.

Journal

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Using automated vehicle locator data to classify discretionary police patrol across space

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

October 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Childhood Maltreatment and Cognitive Functioning From Young Adulthood to Late Midlife: A Prospective Study

Journal

Neuropsychology

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)